DEMO Demonstrative determiners

Xiao C57 MFTE DEMO child of DEMO_ALL

Definition

Demonstratives functioning as determiners modifying a noun: this, that, these, those (e.g., “that ring”, “these lands”, “this day”).

Parent

DEMO_ALL

Detection Rules

Demonstrative determiner followed by noun or adjective. Distinguishes determiner from pronominal use. Refines DT.

cql[word="this|that|these|those" & pos="DT"] [pos="NN|NNS|NNP|NNPS|JJ"]

Requires: word, pos

Refines: DT

pybiber

pybiber uses dep_rel==“det” to identify demonstrative determiners, rather than POS-based adjacency to nouns.

cql[word="this|that|these|those" & dep="det"]

Requires: word, pos, dep

Normalization

Per words

Examples

What are you doing this weekend?

Source: le_foll_2024

I love that film.

Source: le_foll_2024

Whoever did that should admit it.

Source: le_foll_2024

Sources

  • biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
  • pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
  • xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes

Notes

D6 loading .55. MFTE merges with demonstrative pronouns (DEMOP).

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